THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELATIVE DEPRIVATION AND THE ATTITUDES OF RURAL AFRIKAANS-SPEAKING WOMEN TOWARD BLACKS

We investigated the relationship between different patterns of relative deprivation and attitudes toward Blacks in a random sample of 92 rural Afrikaans-speaking White women in the present and over time. The subjects experienced different patterns of relative deprivation when they compared their economic, social, and political positions to those of Blacks in the past and in the future. Significant negative relationships were found between the experience of different patterns of relative deprivation with respect to Blacks and attitudes toward Blacks. © 1990 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.